Intuit has introduced the Intuit Tax Advisor that is designed to help advisors provide tax planning and advisory services. The system integrates with the Lacerte and ProConnect Tax systems.

A 1-percent increase in TurboTax Online units was countered by similar decline in TurboTax desktop units left the total with no change for Intuit’s unit sales in the United States for the year ended July 31.

 A California tax preparer has become the third defendant to plead guilty in a falsely obtaining at least $11.8 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans. Thanh Ngoc Rudin, 58, a principal in Mana Tax Services, also pleaded guilty this month  to filing bogus returns on behalf of at least nine professional athletes.